Sentences with phrase «like beetles»

Ram, after refurbishing the 1500 pickup in an effort to quash its competition like beetles under its tires, wants in on some of that high profit action.

But something you may not have noticed is that streetlights attract bugs to the ground below them, too — especially carnivorous bugs, like beetles.

Oddly enough, insects in Japanese culture have led to other monetary ventures, avenues that are filled with intrigue, like beetle pet stores or manic collectors buying insects on the black market.

Like the beetle scales, the cellulose membranes are extremely thin: just a few millionths of a metre thick, although the researchers say that even thinner membranes could be produced by further optimising their fabrication process.

This game works just like a beetle drive, only with a festive reindeer.

Coos of appreciation ripple around the group when the rear panes of glass theatrically spring open in unison like beetle wings, enabling me to get some mysterious parcel off the back shelf.

Classic enemies return granting him the popular abilities like the beam, ninja, sword, wheel, and others to take out anything that stands in his way, while newer abilities like the beetle, circus, bell and archer grant Kirby a slew of new abilities to take on enemies and obstacles no matter how close or distant they are.

Sebastian, the Princess» butler that looks like a beetle, will be lending a hand (or claws).

Not exact matches

In the remembrance of the late John Lenen of the beetles for his song «Imagine»... Wonder how was able to imagine what he had imagined when having a group like those in contol of life or was that the reason that pushed him to sing what he sang and maybe killed for??

Binx Boiling vents his rage, for instance, by calling ours «the very century of merde, the great shithouse of scientific humanism where needs are satisfied, everyone becomes an anyone, a warm and creative person, and prospers like a dung beetle.»

Gargantuan dinosaurs like brontosauruses, or gigantic mammals like Baluchitherium could easily have inhaled insects, and they would have to dodge ants, beetles, worms, frogs, snakes, and even much smaller mammals with each gargantuan step.

Occasionally, the flavor just comes from things you may prefer not to ingest — like ground up beetles.

Even when the flavors come from «natural sources,» they may be derived from things you'd rather not ingest — like ground - up beetles.

The bumper cars sat motionless, like hibernating beetles.

«Kids can watch for the bugs that help the process, like bess beetles, worms, ants and termites.»

Beetles have a very hard exoskeleton (outer skeleton) and hard forewings, like all insects their bodies are made up of three parts: the head, thorax and abdomen.

With their tough exoskeleton, and no obvious sign of wings, beetles don't look like they're even capable of flight.

These tiny beetles don't look very interesting from afar, but a close view from above reveals a beautiful intricate pattern that looks more like art than an insect exoskeleton.

Like ants and honeybees, beetles communicate via scented chemicals called pheromones, one of which warns the insects to stay away from particular trees.

In species like the flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum), the behavior may also impart a reproductive advantage, since studies have shown that cannibalistic individuals produce more eggs than non-cannibals.

Gillette recently tested a plastic vial that emits green - leaf chemicals that smell like fresh - cut grass; it convinces beetles they are in an undesirable meadow rather than a heavily wooded forest.

Yet neither robber bees nor pests like wax moths and small hive beetles are entering the emptied bee boxes.

What's more, even small amounts of ethanol stalled the growth of microbial «weeds» that crowd out the beetles» food source, like the fungus Penicillium.

But they also collected wild relatives of chickpeas in southeastern Turkey that hold «great promise,» von Wettberg says, as a source of new genes for traits like drought - resistance, resistance to pod - boring beetles, and heat tolerance.

When the beetles consume the eggs, these develop into the juvenile, egg - like stage that is extracted from dead beetles and sold to customers following sterilisation.

The researchers discovered that it was even able to shoot around a corner: Using two disk - shaped «reflectors» on either side of the nozzle, the beetle could deflect its spray to hit hard - to - reach spots, like the top of its own head.

Using herbivorous tortoise beetle populations in Florida's Apalachicola National Forest — where management areas experience controlled burns on a three - year burn schedule — a team of FSU researchers found evidence that factors like time since fire and population levels in surrounding areas can predict recolonization patterns in patches disturbed by burns.

What looks like a caterpillar chewing on a leaf or a beetle consuming fruit is likely a three - way battle that benefits most, if not all of the players involved, according to a Penn State entomologist.

In a drawer at a museum, the butterflies, dragonflies, beetles, and other insects stand discretely apart, like jewels, each neatly labeled on its mounting pin.

The Colorado potato beetle suppresses the plants chewing response only when the beetles feed on tomatoes or potatoes, not when they feed on other members of the nightshade family like eggplants or peppers.

Research suggests that the ground beneath a newly installed streetlight can become an attractive place for predators and scavenging invertebrates like ants, harvestmen, amphipods and ground beetles — plenty of food and, perhaps, plenty of sex for some as a result.

Simplified, they might look something like this: At temperature X, an approximate number of beetles (Y) should emerge simultaneously, giving the insects a Z percent chance that a significant number will reproduce successfully.

Worse, warmer winters have allowed pests like the mountain pine beetle to thrive.

Scientists think trees don't die from not taking in carbon, but rather it weakens the tree's defenses and makes trees more susceptible to predators like bark beetles.

A live beetle with electrodes wired up to its nervous system can made to take off and be steered like a remote - controlled aircraft

A team led by UBC Botany Prof. Patrick Keeling sequenced the genome of Helicosporidium — an intracellular parasite that can kill juvenile blackflies, caterpillars, beetles and mosquitoes — and found it evolved from algae like another notorious pathogen: malaria.

Scientists discovered that flies and beetles secrete a sticky fluid over their feet, which seems to act like a glue.

Mountain pine beetle infections are becoming more intense as weather warms in coniferous forests, like this one in central British Columbia.

Like stags or elephants, which use antlers and tusks to fight for dominance, male dung beetles use their horns to ward off rivals.

We have also seen them as a source of inspiration: The Egyptians symbolized their sun god, Ra, as a great scarab beetle rolling the sun like a ball of dung across the heavens.

Both had what looked like tiny barbed hairs stuck to their bodies — these hairlike structures are frequently found on beetle larvae that hung out in dinosaur nests.

Instead, write, «Studying dung beetles like these might help lower gasoline prices!»

So bugs like silkworms, drugstore beetles, termites, or hornworms could help fill in nutritional gaps.

There have also been disasters, like the poisonous cane toad in Australia, which was originally imported to help control the gray - backed cane beetles that were damaging sugar crops, but is now spreading across the continent and depleting native populations.

Like all insects, dung beetles breathe through a set of tiny holes called spiracles.

For instance, Raffa says bark beetles have «breached a historical barrier,» showing up in typically cooler places like Alberta, Canada.

«The way things stand now, if something that loves sugar maple, like the Asian longhorn beetle, ever got here, we could lose our hardwood timber industry.»

«The tree launches a scorched - earth defense against the beetle, but the beetle converts the tree's toxins into attractants, like an early version of jiujitsu,» says Raffa.

Researchers now report just such a discovery: the joint of a beetle leg that turns inward and outward like a screw.

Shaped like shields or hubcaps, Cephalotes heads are a perfect fit for the tunnels left over by wood - boring beetles in tree trunks.